Word: charms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bean plants badly infected with powdery mildew. Remembering that actidione was supposed to kill fungi (including mildews), the Michigan scientists sprayed them with a weak solution. In 48 hours the mildew disappeared. They made the solution still weaker and tried it on other afflicted beans. It worked like a charm in dilutions as great as one part per million (1 oz. to 7,497 gals. of water...
...fuss over a game of football? Ever since the big series started in 1875, men have tried to discover the special charm of the late November classic. Bright-eyed moralists, for instance, have gone into a happy glow at the sight of real clean, healthy (American) sportsmanship. But 57,000 fans haven't paid $4.80 and upwards each to see a demonstration of the Golden Rule...
...Devil, and the high-kicking flesh & blood leg that Minnie suddenly sprouted. The whole thing was a frisky parable in which good & evil did not wrestle so much as tickle each other with straws. Generally tame and frequently tedious, Minnie owed its gayest moments to the bouncy charm of Actress Hull (Arsenic and Old Lace, Harvey...
When Robert Montgomery has the screen to himself, "The Saxon Charm" threatens to become a solid, intelligent film. Montgomery plays the part of the villainous Broadway producer Matt Saxon with skill and variety and as much subtlety as the script allows. Saxon in supposed to be the kind of domineering psychopath who wraps his will around everybody in his path, and drains them of individuality. He barges into their private lives, insulting, fascinating, and usually ruining them. That's the theoretical Saxon, at any rate...
...having gone to considerable trouble to perfect his voice, Dewey is singing only love songs this year. He talked about the Communists and about Stalin during that half hour of charm at the Arena and it sounded like Arthur Godfrey praising Graham crackers. A traitor's treatment, Dewey cooed, is what any Communist will get if he's caught betraying the Americans government. Here he stepped back from the microphones and smiled delightedly. A thin ripple of applause swept the crowd...